ADVANCING AMERICAN INDIAN ART
The Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives has an extensive collection of documentary and photographic works on American Indians with an emphasis on indigenous people in the Greater Southwest. The Digital Library represents a virtual selection from the archives, library and art collections including:
Phoenix Indian School Students on Parade, c. 1929
Phoenix Indian School Historic Photographs
The Heard Museum requests your help in identifying the people, places, and activities in photographs from the Phoenix Indian School. The photographs cover several decades from the school’s history.
If you are able to provide any information on the photos, please click on the word “COMMENTS” located at the bottom of the record for each photograph to share your information.
Collection RC5 consists of approximately 170 photographic prints. Most are formal, posed portraits of Native Americans in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Most photographs are identified by name of individual and tribe. Also some photographs of camp scenes, agency buildings, dwellings of officers’ families, trading posts, and boarding schools. Most photographs are by either William S. Soule or Cossand & Mosser.
The Masterworks Series of exhibits and accompanying catalogs (“Hold Everything,” “Be Dazzled,” and “So Fine”) by the Heard Museum brought Native voices to the interpretation of its collections by inviting American Indian artists to serve as guest curators for each exhibit. The online Masterworks Series links the artwork featured in the three exhibits and catalogs with selected archival holdings on each artist in the Heard Museum Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives. View the collection online →
This project generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Digitized resources selected primarily from the archival collections in the Billie Jane Baguley Library and Archives.
